Fence-post.



No. 776,624. PATENTED DEC. 6, 1904:. J. STEWARD.

FENCE POST.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 12, 1004.

no 140mm.

UNITED STATES Patented December 6, 1904.

JOHN STITEX'VARD, OF BOONE, 10W A.

FENCE-POST.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 776,624, dated December6, 1904:.

Application filed January 12, 1904. Serial No. 188,808. (No model.

all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN STEWART), acitizen of the United States,residing at Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, haveinvented a certain new and useful Fence-Post, of which the following isa specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a fencc-post of simple,durable, and inexpensive construction and one which can be easily andreadily set in the ground and to which wires or boards can be easily andreadily attached or detached from it.

It is my object, further, to provide a fencepost of this kind in whichthe wires which can be used in connection with it may be easily andreadily tightened or taken down and removed from one place to anotherwithout moving the post or without removing the staples which hold thewires to the post.

A further object is to provide a means for holding the wires in positionwhich can be easily detached, and thus release all of the wires whichare connected with any post by simply removing said means.

A further object is to provide an anchor to the post which will tend tohold it firmly in the ground.

A further object is to provide a post which can be easily driven and towhich any number of wires can be attached easily, and these wires may beplaced any desirable distance apart.

My invention consists in certain details in the construction,arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device wherebythe objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully setforth, pointed out in my claim, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevationof the complete post andshows a wire attached to the post. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of thepost, showing the position of the staple before it is twisted around thewire; and Fig. 3 is a sectional view of the post, showing the staple inits twisted position. Fig. 4: shows in detail a portion of the post withrails attached to it instead of Wires and the means for attaching thesame. Fig. 5 is a sectional View of the post, showing the way in whichthe boards are attached thereto.

By referring to the accompanying drawings it will be seen that the postis V-shaped in cross-section and has the parts and 11 substantially atright angles to each other. At the lower end of the post the parts 10and 11 are bent outwardly to form the anchors 12 and 13. Through theapex of the V-shaped portion and through the parts 10 and 11 a series ofopenings 14: are cut, which are designed to admit the wires which form aportion of the fence and form a rest for the wires when these wires aresecured to the post, thus preventing the wires from any verticalmovement rela tive to said posts and eliminating to a large extent thefriction between the wires and the posts to which they are attached.Extending vertically of the post and between the parts 10 and 11 and inengagement with these parts is the rod 15, having the hook 16 at itsupper end, said hook being designed to engage the upper portion of theparts 10 and 11 in such a way that said rod will be supported in theposition shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings.

Passing around the rod and extending outwardly through the openings 14.is a series of staples 17, which are designed to pass around the wireswhich enter the openings 14, said staples being designed to maintain thewires in position relative to the post when. the outer ends of saidstaples are twisted into the posi tion shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

It will be seen that the wire can be easily and readily attached to thepost by the use of staples being arranged in the manner above describedand that the staples can be easily untwisted, so that the wire can betaken from between the parts of the staple. It will also be seen that ifthe operator desires to remove all of the wires from the post he can doso by drawing the rod 15 upwardly and out of engagement with thestaples. This can be easily accomplished on account of the hook 16,which is mounted at the top of the rod 15, and also because the stapleswill be prevented from vertical movement, owing to the way in which theyare positioned in the slots 14. The anchors 12 and 13 may or may not beused; but it is particularly desirable to have these an chors on thepost when the wires are stretched across a low place or a ravine, sothat the posts will not be easily pulled out of the ground. hen it isdesired to attach boards or rails to the post, a V-shaped Washer isplaced between the parts 10 and 11 of the post and behind each of theopenings 14:, and a bolt is passed through each of said washers andthrough each of said openings 14: and through the boards or rails, andsaid boards or rails are firmly attached to the post in this way.

By providing a V-shaped post with deep notches in the apex thefence-wires may be admitted into the notches and held bythe post properagainst up-and-down movement. By providing a straight rod 15 inside theV-shaped fence, staples or tic-wires 17 may be passed around the rod 15,projected through the notches in the post and then twisted around thefence-wires. These staples or tie-wires need not be made of strong heavyWire, because they have only to prevent the wire from sliding out of thenotches. In this way the fence-wires are securely held to the post andprevented from up-and-down movement by the post itself, and if at anytime it is desirable to detach all of the wires from the post this maybe done quickly and easily by elevating the rod 15.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is

The combination of a metallic fence-post, substantially V-shaped incross-section and formed with relatively deep notches at its apex, saidnotches designed to receive fence-Wires and to prevent up-and-downmovements of the fence-wires resting therein, a straight rod restingWithin the apex of the post, and staples or tie-wires passed around theinner face of the rod through the notches of the post and designed tohave their ends twisted together to retain fence-Wires resting in thenotches to hold said fence-Wires against movement out of the notches.

JOHN STEWARD.

\Vitnesses:

H. S. TAYLOR, J. M. WooDwoRTH.

